Here are options for our Spanish Communities Projects. Communities Projects are required once per semester, but may be completed once per quarter.
When you turn in your Communities Project, you must also turn in a 1-page, typed (MS may hand write), double-spaced, 12-point font, summary and explanation of your project. The summary must include the following items: 1. Detailed explanation of what you did. Answer several of the following questions. Where did you go, who went with you, what was the event like, was it fun or boring, would you do this project again or recommend it to a friend, etc. 2. Explanation of how you used Spanish. Did you speak, read, write, listen or all of the above? Was it hard or easy to do it and why? What vocabulary from class did you use? 3. Description of how you would change this project next time. Did you say something wrong? Read something wrong? What can you do next time to make it better?
Recipes - Please examine both the Spanish and the English (if available) versions.
Gazpacho is a cold, tomato based soup served in the south of Spain, often with baguette and cheese.
I also have printed copies of several recipes, such as paella valenciana and tortilla española
Short Stories - please check out a book from my collection, read it to the best of your ability and tell me about it.
Poetry - I have a number of short poems that I can copy for you to read. Some have English translations already.
Interview - Interview a person living in our community who speaks Spanish natively or as part of their job non-natively.
Cartoon - Find a cartoon on ToonDoo that is in Spanish and edit it to make it better, funnier, or more correct. Please bring me the original cartoon and your remix. It would be a little more work, but you could also make me a Toon from scratch in Spanish.
Events - Attend Mass in Spanish (you may have to travel to do this); Attend the Festival of Nations in St. Louis and visit all of the Spanish-speaking booths (you don't have to buy something at every one, obviously, but you should try something!); Find a visiting Flamenco, Salsa, Tango, Cumbia, Ballet Folklórico performance in St. Louis, Columbia, Kansas City and attend;
Restaurant visit - Visit a local Mexican, Spanish, Nicaraguan, Panameño, other Hispanic restaurant and try to conduct all of your business in Spanish! Don't speak to the waiter in English at all! Ask where the bathroom is, order water with lemon and without ice, ask for the guacamole to be off on the side. Ask why the pollo is loco. Get creative and challenge yourself!
Films - You must have a signed parent permission slip to watch a film.
Film must be originally in Spanish, you may of course use English subtitles to help you. Examples could include La misma luna, Volver, Como agua para chocolate, Motorcycle Diaries, Todo sobre mi madre, El crimen ferpecto, Sin Nombre. Non-examples include Shrek, Finding Nemo, The Little Mermaid - even if you "put the Spanish language track on." There are hundreds of titles that qualify, but please check with me before you watch one. Also, please remember that standards for rating films varies from country to country, and what we consider PG or PG-13 can be rated R in other countries, and vice-versa. Please check any content advisories for a film before watching it.
When you turn in your Communities Project, you must also turn in a 1-page, typed (MS may hand write), double-spaced, 12-point font, summary and explanation of your project. The summary must include the following items:
1. Detailed explanation of what you did. Answer several of the following questions. Where did you go, who went with you, what was the event like, was it fun or boring, would you do this project again or recommend it to a friend, etc.
2. Explanation of how you used Spanish. Did you speak, read, write, listen or all of the above? Was it hard or easy to do it and why? What vocabulary from class did you use?
3. Description of how you would change this project next time. Did you say something wrong? Read something wrong? What can you do next time to make it better?
Recipes - Please examine both the Spanish and the English (if available) versions.
Gazpacho is a cold, tomato based soup served in the south of Spain, often with baguette and cheese.
I also have printed copies of several recipes, such as paella valenciana and tortilla española
Short Stories - please check out a book from my collection, read it to the best of your ability and tell me about it.
Poetry - I have a number of short poems that I can copy for you to read. Some have English translations already.
Interview - Interview a person living in our community who speaks Spanish natively or as part of their job non-natively.
Cartoon - Find a cartoon on ToonDoo that is in Spanish and edit it to make it better, funnier, or more correct. Please bring me the original cartoon and your remix. It would be a little more work, but you could also make me a Toon from scratch in Spanish.
Events - Attend Mass in Spanish (you may have to travel to do this); Attend the Festival of Nations in St. Louis and visit all of the Spanish-speaking booths (you don't have to buy something at every one, obviously, but you should try something!); Find a visiting Flamenco, Salsa, Tango, Cumbia, Ballet Folklórico performance in St. Louis, Columbia, Kansas City and attend;
Restaurant visit - Visit a local Mexican, Spanish, Nicaraguan, Panameño, other Hispanic restaurant and try to conduct all of your business in Spanish! Don't speak to the waiter in English at all! Ask where the bathroom is, order water with lemon and without ice, ask for the guacamole to be off on the side. Ask why the pollo is loco. Get creative and challenge yourself!
Films - You must have a signed parent permission slip to watch a film.
Film must be originally in Spanish, you may of course use English subtitles to help you. Examples could include La misma luna, Volver, Como agua para chocolate, Motorcycle Diaries, Todo sobre mi madre, El crimen ferpecto, Sin Nombre. Non-examples include Shrek, Finding Nemo, The Little Mermaid - even if you "put the Spanish language track on." There are hundreds of titles that qualify, but please check with me before you watch one. Also, please remember that standards for rating films varies from country to country, and what we consider PG or PG-13 can be rated R in other countries, and vice-versa. Please check any content advisories for a film before watching it.